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Japanese performance cars are like japanese schoolgirls. By the time they are 15 years old they've all been molested so your only option is to choose one where the previous owner had similar perversions to yourself.

Wasnt too bad of a race - most of the action was mid field and there were some decent battles going on. Sure, it was "boring" if you wanted Ric to win, but wasnt that bad overall.

Surely Ves has got to take some of the blame for the accident going in to turn one. Although Vettel did move over on him, there was no way known he didnt know Kimi was alongside him and his movement was a massive over reaction - there was a good metre and a bit between his car and Vettels when he moved over on Kimi.

Wasnt too bad of a race - most of the action was mid field and there were some decent battles going on. Sure, it was "boring" if you wanted Ric to win, but wasnt that bad overall.

Surely Ves has got to take some of the blame for the accident going in to turn one. Although Vettel did move over on him, there was no way known he didnt know Kimi was alongside him and his movement was a massive over reaction - there was a good metre and a bit between his car and Vettels when he moved over on Kimi.

So the collision would have happened .5 of a second later? Vettel was coming regardless.

Yeah I thought it was a good race considering it was pinned to have zero overtakes. For a while there pretty much every lap had an overtake somewhere in the field.

Sainz has a good drive. I thought maybe he'd get driver of the day.

I rate young Carlos. He gets a bit over-shadowed by all the hype surrounding Verstappen and Stroll [in his cause, mainly negative] but he gets solid results, generally drives clean and has dominated his team mate.

Originally Posted by TJ

So the collision would have happened .5 of a second later? Vettel was coming regardless.

That would imply Vettel was moving over the whole way and would continue moving over, which i dont think was the case - he would have to have yielded at some point. My take is that Verstappen moved over early in an attempt to block Kimi who was already well and truly past him. He seems to have no problem holding his ground diving into a corner at speeds and moving towards his opponent [much like Vettel just did then] when it suits him. If he held his ground, Vettel wouldnt have continued moving over or risked puncture to LHR, Kimi would have beaten both to T1.

You make your own luck; it cant just be "bad luck" that Ves is continually involved in tangles with other cars.

Stroll is not doing that bad in the second half of the season. Has shown solid performance in the wet on multiple occasions. If there was a day to bin a car yesterday was it but he was solid all race. He needs some more confidence to attack a little more aggressively when he has opportunities but he is definitely improving.

I reckon that was Vettel's equivalent of Webber in Korea 2010. Any more bad performances and Bottas could take second in the championship.

Max concentrating on getting off the line quickly, sees Kimi coming up on the left, holds his line knowing Kimi prob wont make it past in time... nekminute Vettel comes across to close Max's line off without realising Kimi is there. I dont think Vettel closed in dangerously quickly, he thought Max had room to avoid him... but he didnt.

We had a great pub crawl leading up to the race, then hit these frozen Margarita drinks right across from the podium, my mate was getting chummy with the chick making them and she was free pouring a fuck load of booze into them.
Running on the track at the end was pretty cool, then went and saw the last 30mins of Calvin Harris. Hot chicks errywhere

We had a great pub crawl leading up to the race, then hit these frozen Margarita drinks right across from the podium, my mate was getting chummy with the chick making them and she was free pouring a fuck load of booze into them.
Running on the track at the end was pretty cool, then went and saw the last 30mins of Calvin Harris. Hot chicks errywhere

Christian Horner mentions Dan suffered a gearbox oil pressure issue and had to manage the car to make it all the way to the end. Would say that was the reason why.

At one point midway through the race they showed some incar of Dan and you could hear he was short shifting. I was surprised the commentators didn't pick this up. Shame. Based on practice he deserved a chance to compete for the top step.